interdisciplinaryadj.
/ˌɪntədɪsᵻˈplɪnəri//ɪntəˈdɪsᵻˌplɪnəri/ Of or pertaining to two or more disciplines or branches of learning; contributing to or benefiting from two or more disciplines.
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society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [adjective] > various
polytechnic1798
polytechnical1798
interdiscipline1930
multidiscipline1935
interdisciplinary1937
1937 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. Dec. 251 Programs of study submitted should provide..for training of an inter~disciplinary nature.
1956 J. Lotz in L. White Frontiers of Knowledge in Study of Man 217 There is also considerable interest in interdisciplinary studies involving structural linguistics.
1957 E. Bott Family & Social Network ii. 35 Ten years ago interdisciplinary research was very much in vogue.
1965 Listener 18 Nov. 788/2 The work..is again interdisciplinary and does not fall into any of the established academic categories.
1970 Guardian 12 Nov. 5/6 The academic policies put forward—essentially a two-year general interdisciplinary degree.
1972 Language 48 487 Child language acquisition has proved to be one of the more important interdisciplinary areas of the past decade.
Draft additions 1993
interˌdiscipliˈnarity n. the quality, fact, or condition of being interdisciplinary.
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society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > interdiscipline or multidiscipline > quality of being interdisciplinary
interdisciplinarity1970
1970 Nature 17 Oct. 218/2 Science policy research is done in universities..although its necessary interdisciplinarity has made its accommodation difficult in some countries.
1988 E. G. Stanley & T. F. Hoad Words: for Robert Burchfield's 65th Birthday 96 An international conference held in Nice in 1969..produced the first of many guides that in the 70s taught us..to discriminate knowingly between the seven brands of interdisciplinarity.
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adj.1937